Re: [Evolution] backing up for restore after reinstall

[Stephen Liu <satimis icare com hk>]

Hi Not,

Thanks for your advice.

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 09:35, Not Zed wrote:
> all you have to do is:
>
> cd
> tar czvf evolution.tar.gz evolution

Which directory I have to cd.  I expect to retain the backup on
/home/satimis/Temp/

> evolution.tar.gz is your backup.
>
> Then when you want to restore it
>
> cd
> tar xzvf /paht/to/backup/evolution.tar.gz

Which directory I have to cd?  Kindly advise

> This way it will only save the relative 'evolution' path in the archive.
>
> You saved the full path to home in your tar file, which you didn't
> really want.
>
> For 'test 1', just do:
>
> tar -zxvf /mnt/cdrom/backup_local.tar.gz -C /
>
> So it untar's from /, since you have the full path in your archive.
> (not normally recommended, but thats how you made it in the first
> place)/.

Noted with thanks

B.R.
Stephen

> PS this is a little off topic, any general gnu/unix documentation should
> cover basic tar operations like this
>
> On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 20:40, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > Hi Not and other folks
> >
> > I am trying to copy all email boxes of an USER, such Inbox, Outbox,
> > Sent, etc. from Evolution 1.4 running on a RH8.0 box to another
> > Evolution 1.4 running on a RH9.0 box, same USER, and encountered
> > difficulty as follows;
> >
> > Steps taken
> > RH8.0 box
> > # mkdir /home/satimis/Temp/
> > # tar -zcvf /home/satimis/Temp/backup_local.tar.gz
> > /home/satimis/evolution/local/
> >
> > Burnt the tarball on a CD
> >
> > Untar
> > RH9.0 box
> > The CD was automatically mounted
> >
> > Test-1
> > # tar -zxvf /mnt/cdrom/backup_local.tar.gz -C
> > /home/satimis/evolution/local
> >
> > The tarball was decompressed to
> > /home/satimis/evolution/local/home/satimis/evolution/local/
> >
> > I tried to copy a file/email from the untared Inbox to
> > /home/satimis/evolution/local/Inbox/  but it could not work.  Starting
> > Evolution could not see that email in the Inbox.  Maybe copying files or
> > folders/directories from the untared /home/satimis/evolution/local/ and
> > pasting the same to /home/satimis/evolution/local/ of RH9.0 are not the
> > correct procedure.
> >
> > Test-2
> > # tar -zxvf /mnt/cdrom/backup_local.tar.gz -C
> >
> > I saw on the Konsole window the tarball has been decompressed but I
> > could not locate the decompressed folder/directory afterwords.
> >
> > Could you please advise what shall be the correct syntax to tar
> > /home/satimis/evolution/local/  on RH8.0 box and untar the tarball on
> > RH9.0 box.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > B.Regards
> > Stephen Liu
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 06:07, Not Zed wrote:
> > > Backup everything in ~/evolution for all email, calendar, addressbook,
> > > vFolder and filters.
> > >
> > > If you also need to keep configuration defaults, and mail accounts, then
> > > also backup ~/.gconf/apps/evolution at least.
> > >
> > > On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 19:37, Thinker wrote:
> > > > I am going to wipe my machine out and reinstall SuSE 8.2 tonight. What
> > > > do I need to do so that I don't lose any of my emails from evolution
> > > > 1.4.4? I plan to burn my documents folder and whatever else I need to to
> > > > a disk before I wipe it all.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
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